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Monday, 7 April 2014

Golf Digest: Sinks To a New Low....

For loyal viewers of my blog you all
know how much I detest women who are involved with golf because of a boyfriend,
fiancé, husband or family member who is part of the PGA and LPGA that have no
respect for the game and the etiquette behind our dress code.So when I was informed last week that one of
my number one targets that I like to comment on is in fact on the cover of Golf
Digest for this month’s issue in of course not appropriate golf clothing I was
fuming…well that might be an understatement.

Having said that I thought maybe I am jumping the gun and its fine
because its their so called “fit issue.” Then I get an e-mail from one of my members
about a the “Globe and Mail” article on this very topic and think to myself
this deserves some discussion on my blog. We all know sex sells however I never
thought that Golf Digest was so desperate for revenue that they would stoop to
this level and put a model on the cover who is not known of having any great
golf talents just because she’s the fiancé of Dustin Johnson.

So my first problem is the fact that she’s
not even a talented golfer gracing the cover of Golf Digest.Second problem is that she is portrayed as a
sex object with that pose that has nothing to do with “fitness.”It is degrading against women who have fought
so hard to be seen as equals in the golf industry and in life.I reviewed the article online and was even
more upset at the lack of interview about anything important from Paulina.

Stacy Lewis, who has been featured on
my blog from time to time who has won two major titles, has also never appeared
on the cover of Golf Digest. Last year she was briefly No. 1 in the world on
her way to winning the Vare Trophy for the tour’s lowest scoring average.

Asked for her reaction to the
magazine’s cover choice, Lewis said: “It’s frustrating for female golfers. It’s
kind of the state of where we’ve always been. We don’t get respect for being
the golfers that we are. Obviously, Golf Digest is trying to sell magazines.
But at the same time you’d like to see a little respect for the women’s game.”

Also from the article:

“Besides
Gretzky, the only woman to be given sole billing on the cover without having
won a pro or major amateur event is Golf Channel personality Holly Sonders, in
May 2013. (Nicklaus’ wife, Barbara, appeared on the March 1975 cover with her
husband’s instructor, Jack Grout.) Model Kate Upton posed alongside Arnold
Palmer in December’s issue.”

According to the Times, only 11 women since 1969 have appeared alone on
the cover of Golf Digest. One of those women, Juli Inkster, also vented
her frustration with the magazine.

“It’s
frustrating because it’s Golf Digest; it’s not Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit
issue,” Inkster said, adding: “I think they should maybe recognize some of the
great women golfers that we have. It’s like, What do you have to do to get a
little respect? I’m guaranteeing you right now, it was not a woman editor who
chose that cover.”

Inkster said:
“OK, so I think next month the cover should be Paula Creamer’s fiancé, who’s a
fighter pilot, or Brittany Lincicome’s hot boyfriend, who’s a long-drive
hitter. Put one of them on there.”

Having a fitness issue is so
important.However when Paulina was
asked about the poses for the day she said: “Those were hard! I had to hold those
poses in the beaming sun for several seconds, all while trying to look pretty.
And I was pretty sore the next morning.”Several seconds and she has the audacity to complain.No person that is gracing the cover of a
magazine where the focus is fitness should complain about holding a pose for
several seconds.Obviously she does not
practice yoga on a regular basis.

This
issue of the Golf Digest is a joke.It
used to mean something when you got to grace the cover of Golf Digest that you
had fulfilled a dream of being a champion in some sense.Now they have taken that away from past
people who have been on the cover.